Spring Fling

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to hunger activist Robert Egger of L.A. Kitchen about his work feeding seniors, one of the fastest growing underfed populations. Molly Birnbaum, executive editor of Cook's Science at America’s Test Kitchen, is back with her monthly check-in. This time it’s goat's versus cow's milk. Plus Spring chef Skye Gyngell chats with contributor Noelle Carter about seasonal cooking, Taste of Home's Mark Hagen explains rhubarb and we visit the shop True Treats Candy with Susan Benjamin, author of Sweet as Sin.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

May 13, 2016 (originally aired)
May 26, 2017 (rebroadcast)

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0:31.4	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Anna Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:38.7	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories,
0:44.4	their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:54.5	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
1:01.3	Hey, it's Frances Lamb.
1:03.4	Thanks so much for downloading this week's podcast.
1:06.1	We hope you love the show, and you love it so much that you'll want more info.
1:09.9	Well, you can always find more
1:11.3	info on everything you hear at splendid table.org. Recipes, videos, more information on all of
1:18.3	our guests and their books, and you can subscribe to our newsletter, Weeknight Kitchen. It's all
1:23.3	about delicious things to make on weeknights. But right now, let's get to this week's show, hosted by Lynn Rosetta Casper.
1:35.1	This is the splendid table from APM, American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat.
1:42.5	I'm Lynn Rosetta Casper.
1:51.4	Thank you. for people who love to eat. I'm Lynn Rosetta Casper. A woman who could be your grandmother has just slipped cans of cat food into her shopping cart.
1:58.0	Now she can afford this month's medicines.
2:03.9	This isn't a myth. 9.6 million seniors don't get enough to eat. This is where Robert Egger comes in. In 1989, Robert started D.C.
2:11.0	Central Kitchen. By training the people employers often ignored, ex-convicts, and kids who had aged out of the foster care system.
2:19.5	They sourced from local farmers, and D.C. Kitchen ended up doing 30 million meals, many of them
2:26.5	supplying D.C. schools. Now Robert Hager is in Los Angeles. He's setting out to feed our most
2:33.3	ignored citizens, seniors. Robert, good to have you with us.
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